English - The Real Deal

在看EW的American Idol recap时，注意到这么一句话：

I mean, Simon even did an air rimshot after one of Carrey’s on-air jokes, a move I thought was limited to American parents out to embarrass their kids.

我的第一反应：Simon did a what?

赶紧查字典，居然没有rimshot这个词。接着google，找到了一篇让我大笑的文章，因为作者和我对rimshot的“误解”完全一样。推荐大家阅读全文： WTF

My initial reaction was a mix of shock and intrigue…WTF?! Cue the rim shot? We hadn’t even kissed yet. He didn’t lose any points for this trust me…I was just a bit surprised.

Then I sat back and thought about it and decided that my idea of rim shot and his idea of rim shot HAD to be different. So I asked this chick that I work with and her first reaction was it was the drum noise that comes after a punchline…huh? Well a quick trip to google found that she was sort of right. Wikipedia said this…The term is erroneously used to refer to the sting played by the drummer in cabaret shows to accentuate the punchline of a joke. As a result, a particularly obvious laugh line is sometimes called a rimshot.

这一段笑死我了：

Today some dude at work used the ‘cue the rim shot’ line again and once again my slightly twisted brain jumped right to the porn definition of the term instead of the punchline.

顺带推荐文章里提到的一个榜单：Top 97 Words That Sound Dirty, But Aren’t

Bonus video: Paula Abdul - Dance Like There’s No Tomorrow

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